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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 138, NWS Tallahassee, FL

May 22, 2022Lee County, Terrell County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2022, 2:17 PM EDT for Lee County, Terrell County, Georgia. It was in force for 15 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 22, 2022, 2:17 PM EDT (18:17 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2022, 2:32 PM EDT
In force: 15 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Lee County, GA, Terrell County, GA

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 178 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 116 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 914 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 22, 1:50 PM EDT, 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 22, 1:50 PM EDT, 27 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 22, 1:35 PM EDT, 42 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 22, 1:38 PM EDT, 39 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 22, 1:41 PM EDT, 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 22, 1:41 PM EDT, 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 22, 1:54 PM EDT, 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 22, 2:08 PM EDT, 9 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 21, 11:14 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		48 min
May 21, 11:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dixie, Lafayette	89 min
May 22, 8:14 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		91 min
May 22, 9:42 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
May 22, 10:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay, Walton, Washington	45 min
May 22, 10:57 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay, Holmes, Walton, Washington	48 min
May 22, 11:33 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes, Washington	42 min
May 22, 11:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Gulf, Jackson	50 min
May 22, 2:49 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		116 min
May 22, 3:53 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		97 min
May 22, 4:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay, Walton, Washington	60 min
May 22, 4:57 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		63 min
May 22, 5:31 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		29 min
May 22, 5:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Washington	64 min
May 22, 6:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jackson	46 min
May 21, 8:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lowndes	39 min
May 22, 12:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Clay, Early, Quitman, Randolph	49 min
May 22, 1:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Randolph, Terrell	40 min
May 22, 1:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Brooks	49 min
May 22, 1:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Quitman, Randolph	24 min
May 22, 2:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Dougherty, Lee, Mitchell, Terrell	42 min
May 22, 2:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lowndes	50 min
May 22, 2:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Turner, Worth	33 min
May 22, 4:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin	38 min
May 22, 5:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Brooks, Cook, Lowndes	49 min
May 22, 12:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Houston	40 min
May 22, 12:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee	52 min
May 22, 12:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston	33 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.